Necklace of Renisenib

Middle Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 111

This necklace was found around the neck of the mummy of Reniseneb. A mirror (26.7.1351) inscribed with Reniseneb's name and title was also found on the mummy. His coffin had been placed in a pit tomb that contained at least five other burials, all of which had been ransacked. The fact that Reniseneb's coffin was undisturbed and had been placed on top of fragments from the rifled burials may indicate that it was placed in the tomb after the robbery had occurred.

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